Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst, the Tri-State tornado of 1925, killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A single storm front can create several tornadoes, each whirling furiously for a few fearsome miles. Sometimes the roaring black vortex stays harmlessly in the sky; when it dips to earth, the impact can dig a crater...
...seaway's impact on both the geography and economy of the continent will be enormous. More than 8,000 miles of new coastline will be added to the U.S-s and Canada. Such lakefront cities as Chicago, Cleveland, l)uluth, Buffalo, Toronto and Hamilton will become genuine deepwater ports, 500 miles closer to Europe by seaway than at present. Goods now shipped by rail to the Atlantic from the U.S. Midwest at a cost of $13 a ton will be sent down the St. Lawrence to the sea for about $1.70. Millions will be spent along the waterfront to enlarge...
...surface, Secretary Dulles found further reason for "great satisfaction" in the Austrian Treaty. "In the first place, it marks the first time that the Red armies have turned their face in the other direction and gone back since 1945 . . .* Now, that's bound to have a tremendous impact in the other countries where the Red armies are there in occupation . . . The peoples of the satellite countries are going to want to be getting for themselves the thing that they see the Austrians get-they want to dance in the streets with joy, too, some time." John Foster Dulles...
...picture in Burra's Boston exhibition gave promise of still better to come. He had not bothered to give it a title, but the subject was clearly Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (see cut). Scores of old masters have given the scene more spiritual impact, yet few have conceived it any more compactly and dramatically than Burra has. As always with Burra, evil ruled the conception. But this time the evil was not the housebroken monster of a man fascinated by undigested fears. Burra's Gethsemane faced the onrushing moment of one of history's greatest...
...college winner is Richard H. Henderson, a senior concentrator in Anthropology. Henderson will study anthropology and subjects related to the Middle East, especially the impact of Western technology on classic Islamic doctrine. He has previously studied at Yale college and Heidelburg and Munster Universities in Germany. He is a native of Hamburg, Iowa...